Pável Isa Contreras

Student

Pável Isa Contreras received a B.A. in economics at
Universidad INTEC in the Dominican Republic in 1988, a Master's degree in
economic policies at the Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica in 1994, and a
Ph.D. in economics at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst in 2003. He has worked as researcher at CIECA, a progressive economic think
tank in the Dominican Republic, and as Research Director for CRIES, a Latin
American regional network for social and economic research. He has also served as
economic advisor to the Ministry of Finance in his country in 2003–2004.

Pavel
has taught graduate and undergraduate
courses in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and the
United States on trade and development. Currently, he is president of CIECA and advisor on trade and fiscal
policies for the Technical Secretariat of the Presidency of the Dominican Republic.